The Hinge is a door that flings open. It is a connection, a way through, and a movement. A mechanical device that allows the connection between separate elements, thus opening new possibilities.
A hinge keeps things together. A hinge opens up to infinity.
A Dobradiça is a multidisciplinary program of contemporary art and culture taking place in the town of Mação. At the crossroads between a time, a place, a group of artists and a community, A Dobradiça brings together apparently distant realities and dissolves fictitious boundaries by proposing a dialogue between artists and the public that willingly plunges and soaks in the local landscape (social, natural, constructed and de-constructed).
The program for this biennial reflects the diversity of contemporary culture. Based on the proposals of artists with very different backgrounds, routes and ways of expression, a vibrant, diversified constellation program has been devised for an equally diversified public.
A Dobradiça brings people together. Distances are shortened, asymmetries opposed, never losing sight of the territory and those who inhabit it.
There will be free access to this event, in order to eliminate all eventual barriers between the public and the work being presented. Movement, flow and exposure will be the priorities for this event.
Culture is an encounter, and that’s what we want to bring about. To demultiply. To unfold.
A Dobradiça promotes the democratization of access to culture. To promote inclusion through art and culture, to encourage participation by each and every one, to propose a counterpoint to an isolated interior, to displace the suburbs – such are some of the aims of A Dobradiça.
A Dobradiça is expansive. It summons several voices and promotes encounters in unexpected, unlikely venues. But it is equally contained, since it respects the scale of the place: the town of Mação and its own identity. A sustainable model which does not seek to impose itself on the territory, rather is inspired by it: it promotes the use of local resources and intertwines with the beat of the town until it becomes a part of it.
Contemporary culture in its various expressions will be springing to life all over Mação, thus demystifying the way we usually experience it. It will be pulsing on the streets of Mação, on the gardens and abandoned structures. It will give them a new purpose as re-invented public spaces.
Madalena Galamba / Editorialista